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Steam Beta and Windows 7, Vista forced compatibility problems

Just a quick heads up as this happened to me today, and I googled for a bit and found a solution I thought I'd post here.

If you are running Vista or 7, and are getting errors based on Steam being forced by Windows to run in XP Compatibility mode, or are being booted from the servers for a failure to connect to VAC secure network, try this out:

Basically, all this does is stops Windows from automatically setting your compatibility for Steam, which it shouldn't be doing anyways. This is a problem for some reason with the new Steam, so it just started happening.

I had to delete two to get mine to work flawlessly again. It's an annoying problem, so if it starts happening to you, here's the fix.